Has anyone succeeded on compiling the tex-to-float plugin for gimp?
It can be found here:http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/gimp/tex-to-float/
It's a perl script which cannot be compiled with:
gimptool-2.0 --install tex-to-float
which only accepts c or c++ code.

Browsing around I noticed there's a gimp-perl program which should take care of the script, but there's no such package for gimp-2.6.

Then you need to download the Gimp::Fu module for perl; read the instructions for compiling and installing it. That will install the tex-to-float plugin in /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins, You will then have to make it executable:

Code:

chmod 755 /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/tex-to-float

If that all worked, you will be able to use the plugin by selecting Filters -> Render -> TeX String from the Gimp window. I did all that and managed to get it working.

I did as instructed:
run "perl Makefile.PL", make, make test, make install

Everything seems to have worked. All perl plugins were also copied into /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins.

I also did: chmod 755 /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/tex-to-float
as instructed, but the plugin is not accessible from Filters->Render. Is it because I'm using a x86_64 system?
I copied tex-to-float into /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ and now the plugin is visible. However, when I tried to use it, I got several error messages such as:
"Calling error for procedure 'gimp-procedural-db-proc-info': Procedure 'gimp-gimp-image-undo-group-start' not found".
The same for the procedures: gimp-gimp-context-push and gimp-gimp-load.
I cannot find them anywhere...